Object details:

Object ID

SLR1330

Description

Scale: 1:16. A full hull model of the Manx nobby Gladys (1901). Made entirely in wood with wood, metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The carvel double-ended hull is painted black below the waterline and bulwarks, a triangular white section at the bow, and dark green above the waterline. Hull details include unpainted gunwales; hawse hole; and steeply-raked stern with rudder. The depicted vessel is two-masted, lug-rigged, with a bowsprit. Four sails are set in total including a jib sail set of the bowsprit. The masts, yards, bowsprit and boom are all polished wood and the sails are made from brick red material. Other fittings include a nine-foot dinghy painted mostly white, fish boxes, a bucket, anchor and spare ropes. There is also a helmsman smoking a pipe at the stern, holding the tiller. The model is mounted on a pair of decoratively carved wooden supports with barrel-like tops and displayed on a rectangular wooden baseboard with sloping edges. On port and starboard bows ‘Gladys PL 61’. On stern quarters ‘Peel PL 61’. On the mainsail ‘PL 61’.

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